Henry Fool

Author

Hal Hartley

Call Number

• DVD COMEDY (CEN)

Edition

Widescreen version.

Languages

Closed-captioned.

Performers

Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey.

Publication Information

Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2003.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

MPAA rating: R; for strong sexuality, violence, and language.

Summary

Simon Grim, a nerdy young sanitation worker who lives in Queens with his depressed mother and promiscuous sister, turns out to be a brilliant poet and an overnight literary sensation, after being encouraged to write down his ideas by Henry Fool, a boozy pseudo-intellectual who rents the Grim family basement.

Notes

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1997.